Kratos phishing-as-a-service kit loses its battle with international law enforcement

German authorities dismantled Kratos, a widespread phishing-as-a-service kit that enabled low-skill criminals to harvest credentials and bypass MFA using fake Microsoft pages, arresting its alleged developer in Indonesia after neutralising over 200 servers. The platform was used by approximately 1,800 criminal enterprises to launch around 15,000 phishing campaigns per month targeting hundreds of thousands of victims across 30+ countries.

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